The Wind In The East, 1905
Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches

Signed: At lower left. ‘Emil. Carlsen.’.

Archives of American Art #: JUL J0046821

Provenance:
2008 Rachel Davis Fine Art [1991- ], 1301 West 79th Street, Cleveland, OH 44102
1923 The Macbeth Gallery [1892-1953], 450 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
1906 Private collection of John Linde [1866 – 1939], Esq. and Kate Linde [1865-1934], Hoboken, NJ [this may be mixing the Study with the final painting provenance]
1905 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist

Exhibitions:
2008 Rachel Davis Fine Art, Cleveland, OH, March 15.
1923 The Art Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, “Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Lilian Westcott Hale, Emil Carlsen, and Charles H. Davis“, February 24 – March 18.
1906 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, “First Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists“, May 31 – September 2.
1905-1906 National Academy of Design, New York, NY, “Eighty-First Annual Exhibition“, December 23, 1905 – January 20, 1906.

References:
– “Soren Emil Carlsen: The Hammershoi of Manhattan” by Kim Lykke Jensen, Narayana Press, Gylling, Denmark, 2008, illustrated: color, page 53, figure 35.
– Rachel Davis Fine Art, Cleveland, OH, Sales Cat., March 15, 2008, Lot #66.
– The Art Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, Exhibition Catalog, “Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Lilian Westcott Hale, Emil Carlsen, and Charles H. Davis“, February 24 – March 18, 1923, #31, not illustrated.
– Academy Notes, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, “First Exhibition of Selected American Paintings at the Albright Gallery“, June, 1906, Volume 2, Number 1, page 1-5, not illustrated.
– Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “First Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists”, May 31 – September 2, 1906, #18, not illustrated.
– National Academy of Design, New York, NY, Exhibition Catalog, “Eighty-First Annual Exhibition“, December 23, 1905 – January 20, 1906, #131 , not illustrated.
– Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Image #JUL J0046821.

Notes:
– Not sure if this is the study for Wind in the East or this is the main painting?

Academy Notes, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, “First Exhibition of Selected American Paintings at the Albright Gallery“, June, 1906, Volume 2, Number 1, page 1-5, not illustrated.
…”On this wall are two notable pictures by Emil Carlsen: a “Connecticut Hilltop,” with gray-green grass and red-brown trees under a wonderfully tender and luminous blue sky, and the “Wind in the East”—a subject absolutely antithetical with the other–representing a turbulent sea dashing against a rocky cliff and churned into foam under a clouded sky and with an atmosphere filled with moisture. The first picture is absolutely restful;—the second is full of forceful activity. It is hard to determine which of the two is more impressive, but either of them sufficiently reveals an artist of the first rank.”…

Price:
2008 – $19,000 USD